Verda Welcome speaks about the importance of Negro voting and civic duties. Her remarks commemorate the seventh anniversary of the SCLC’s Crusade for Citizenship and are delivered shortly after an assassination attempt against her. Edited audio file, for full version visit: https://library.artstor.org/#/collection/87730897;colId=87730897;size=72.
Verda Welcome Speaks at TCA Meeting (1964)
Verda Welcome, Civil Rights activist and first woman elected to Maryland’s legislature, speaks at a TCA meeting in 1964.
- Date Created: 06-23-1964
- Date Digitized: 06-23-2021 by Lesa Redmond
- Creator: Verda Welcome
- Subject: Civil Rights; voting rights; politics
- Format: MP3
- Source: reel to reel
- Rights: Tuskegee University Archives